Saturday Snapshots #305: A Top Ten Fairy Tale Songs

Once Upon A Time there was a little quiz called Saturday Snapshots... 

10. Godlike records.

Divine vinyl records...

The Divinyls - Sleeping Beauty

9. Came alive in 1976.

Peter Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976. Every household in the USA was forced to buy a copy. It was his... ahem... golden goose...

Peter Frampton - Golden Goose

8. Probably lime flavoured.

Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs

7. Jester hoping for yuletide snow.

Danny Kaye was in The Court Jester... and White Christmas.

Danny Kaye - The Ugly Duckling

What other blogs do you know that will take you from Green Jelly to Danny Kaye in one move?

6. Which service do you require?

999 - Lil' Red Riding Hood

5. Bard's missus gets fried at the gates of Heaven.

Anne (Hathaway) gets crispy at St. Peter's

Crispian St. Peters - The Pied Piper

4. Are you giving me some messed up data, man?

"Data, man" was an anagram.

Adam Ant - Puss In Boots

That video is a thing of true beauty.

3. We rest her habitual sofa rimples inside. 

We rest her habitual sofa rimples inside. 

Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockafella

When you hear a record you haven't heard in 40 years and you are simultaneously delighted and horrified.

2. Good looking blood.

The Handsome Family - Snow White Diner

That, on the other hand, never grows old.

1. Beyond compare.

Nothing compares to her.

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes

And we all lived happily ever after.

Saturday Snapshots #104 - The Answers

Come with me if you want to live!

Or at least if you want the answers to yesterday's Saturday Snapshots...

Hasta la vista, baby!


10. Fiery gal comes of age.

A fiery gal might be a Burn-ette.

Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen

9. Norman painter gets paranoid.

Norman Rockwell was the painter.

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

8. A magnum crown... pity.

A magnum of champagne for a king?

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame

7. Scooters make me itch.

Lambretta makes scooters.

Poison Ivy leaves you in need of an ocean of calamine lotion...

The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy 

6. A mini roll gets chewed up by an air freshener.

"A mini roll" was an anagram.

Marillion - Lavender

5. "They told me to do it!" I explained to the junior Feds.

"They told me to do it!" Who? The voices in your head?

Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI

4. Directions to the French court maze, please?

Hampton Court Maze? FR is France, so that must make it the Frampton court maze? No? Non?

Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way

I don't mind a bit of Peter Frampton, but this sold far more copies than it should have done.

3. Party pooper DJ wouldn't play 50s hits... and his eyeliner stank.

"Eyeliner stank" was another anagram. (Just count yourself lucky I didn't have to do a third for Peter Frampton: Pope TNT Farmer was very close.)

Sleater Kinney - You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun 

2. Eager nobility wants to hear a song.

A keen earl?

Robert Earl Keen - Let The Music Play

1. Allied forces found on a zebra crossing.

There probably were more than seven nations in the allied forces, but I claim artistic license.

That's it from me for this week, but guess what? Next week? 

I'll be back.